"Dolor" is so wonderful. It begins by reminding me of a poem by Douglas Dunn called "Ode to a Paperclip" but then goes in the opposite direction. Much darker. Dunn ends by arriving at the beautiful dignity of the paperclips, also a must-read; whereas Roethke takes us to this much more frightening place...
I have an mp3 of Roethke reading "My Papa's Waltz." He reads it exactly as you'd imagine, as he writes. I'm attaching (trying to attach!) a .ram file of him reading, which is smaller than the mp3. Hope it works...
It worked! Sorry about the fuzziness.
[This message has been edited by Katy Evans-Bush (edited October 31, 2004).]
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